The Buffalo River in Black and White (C)

The Buffalo River in Black and White (C)
Author: Neil Osf -. Compton
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780912456218

These wonderfully detailed, beautifully printed photographs are about adventures and discoveries: the Buffalo River and its towering bluffs, side canyons with hidden waterfalls, natural bridges, historic places, and more.

The Battle for the Buffalo River

The Battle for the Buffalo River
Author: Neil Compton
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1557289352

Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton’s lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.

Climatological Data

Climatological Data
Author: United States. Environmental Data Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 756
Release: 1967
Genre: Meteorology
ISBN:

Papers

Papers
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1918
Genre: Education
ISBN: